thumb|Roadsign in Morocco, showing an iḍāfah construction: "Commune of Oulmes". Iḍāfah () is the Arabic grammatical construct case, mostly used to indicate possession.
thumb|Roadsign in Morocco, showing an iḍāfah construction: "Commune of Oulmes". Iḍāfah () is the Arabic grammatical construct case, mostly used to indicate possession.
Iḍāfah basically entails putting one noun after another: the second noun specifies more precisely the nature of the first noun. In forms of Arabic which mark grammatical case, this second noun must be in the genitive case. The construction is typically equivalent to the English construction "(noun) of (noun)". It is a very widespread way of forming possessive constructions in Arabic, and is typical of a Semitic language. Simple examples include: "the house of peace". "a kilo of bananas". "the daughter of Hasan/Hasan's daughter". '''' "the house of a man/a man's house". "the house of the man/the man's house".
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).